If the creator of the web itself, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says he will change his ISP if they start to monitor his web activity then we are in a sorry state of affairs. In interview with the BBC he said “consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet”… Read more →
I have just completed my contextual studies essay! I wrote about the peer-to-peer network and how the government has no idea what they are doing with regard to trying to shut down illegal file sharing. I left out the illegal part mostly and focused on comparing the monitoring of data to the tapping of phones… Read more →
The following is an essay I wrote as a polemic as part of a Contextual Studies elective. Peer To Peer is an internet distribution network allowing users to share content without using dedicated servers or utilizing bandwidth. The users share information directly with each other using a centralised ‘tracker’ which directs the relevant information to… Read more →
A planned meeting by the FCC has been announced to tackle the problem of ‘traffic shaping’ – the process of ISP’s dictating access to certain websites, services (such as peer-2-peer) and bandwidth – which is apparently in violation of the ‘net neutrality’ policy employed by the FCC. “The issue of net neutrality has come to… Read more →
I just read this article which says that ISPs have shot down the governement’s plans to have them block or rigorously monitor a subscriber’s data. “surveillance and privacy laws explicitly forbid ISPs to inspect the contents of data…” “P2P technology is legally utilised in a number of commercial services including [the] BBC…” I am very… Read more →